1. Interior Behaviours
Chien-Wen Hsu 許騫文
Chien-Wen started her design journey from interior design background, where she got diverse training in collaborative work with a team through the four years of professional education at one of the reputable interior design departments in Taiwan.
As a storyteller in the spatial region, her aim is to elaborate on multiple issues with the delightful arrangement, colours, light. She shows her concern about the motivation of the user’s behaviour through the fine observation. She designed from small scale residences, retail shop with characteristic, to the massive office and enhances the self-identity for whether the individual or a brand through her spatial narrative during the four years of work experience with strength on.
The master education in Royal College of Art (RCA) offers herself opportunities to challenge the design in a vivid international context than before. With the background between post-Brexit and Pandemic in the United Kingdom during 2018-2020, she applied in the ‘Behaviour Platform’ in RCA for actively involved in human behaviour observation and how the behaviour will be designed in interior space with needs. In this ‘Good Behaviour’ platform, we did the experiment of handwashing for testing the level of intimacy between people. We walk on the street at SOHO with a hat which could cover our face to feel the sight of pedestrians but not to be embarrassed. Also, we try to find out the best space for the first kiss and calculate how long is the LDR’s one day.
Long-distance relationships (LDR) are between people who are geographically separated. In my own experience of LDR, I have 24 hours a day, they have 24 hours a day but our one day is 32 hours due to the 8 hours time difference. We can sense the overlap of this extra non-existent 1/3 day but our best attempts to synchronise always happens on a monotonous screen.
This project is called 32 Hours a Day, which is about LDRs. The three-mode tiny liminal space at two ends of the world comes from the concept of time zones which change in units of 15 degrees longitude. Made possible by the result of the improvement of communication technology, across these global time zones, millions of LDRs have been formed.
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Structure-Timber Frame & Square Section Tube
About the structure, the timber frame is used for a more sustainable version which depends on the frequency of using. The square section tube is used for the outdoor or delicate version.
Screen-Glass & Acrylic
For the screen, the glass appears in every type expect the domestic one, the lighter acrylic is used instead here with sharpening edge for lighting effect and atmosphere.
Screen-Polariser Film
Most of the version contain polariser film on the top of the normal glass, the transparency of it gradually changes through the arrangement between two pieces of the polarised glass panel, applies proper privacy in time.
Screen-Concave Lens
The concave lens contains a larger range of view in the same size of a window.
Support-High Density Foam & Fibre Plastic
The high-density foam and FRP which could be formed in organic shape are used for leaning, sitting or lying posture.
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